There is also the question of their definition of success. While they have, for now, stopped *2600* from linking to it, they've hardly supressed it's existance off the net.
So what you're saying is that Product Activation may penalize innocent users? I thought MicroSoft was trying to stop pirates, not cause trouble for its loyal customers...
And just which part of your sentence "His legendary stubborness is outmatched only by the fragility of his ego" is arguing against his logic? My point was that you CLAIM to only attack his dialectics, but you do not in fact do so.
You even went so far as to claim he would never admit to be proven wrong. I've looked through your old posts and I can't find where you've done so either.
Brilliant. Someone questions why people always attack Stallman with ad hominens and they don't argue his points. So Arandir replies that he always argues "against the dialectics of RMS". The rest of his message explains how RMS is stubborn and egotistical.
Fact #3: Col. Hogan convinced me that the heavy water the Nazis were temporarily storing at my Stalag was in fact water from the fountain of youth. I was stupid for drinking it...
Written in the 60's, but never sent and never published. So this is new information.
Second, there has been a lot of speculation on what happened in Copenhagen in 1941. So much, in fact, that a book and play was written that speculated on the meeting.
These letters seem to cast a pretty serious shadow over the speculation that Heisenberg was secretly working against the Nazis and, for the first time, give us a clear answer to what Bohr's opinion had been.
The NY Times (evil reg, blah blah) has a lengthy article on the release of the documents.
> it's not in any official government document whatsoever.
So I assume that you don't consider rulings of the U.S. Supreme Court to be "official government documents"...
"The [First] Amendment's purpose... was to create a complete and permanent separation of the spheres of religious activity and civil authority by comprehensively forbidding every form of public aid or support for religion." U.S. Supreme Court, Reynolds v. United States (1879)
This is the reply I last received from enforcement@sec.gov:
Dear Investor:
Thank you for taking the time to forward to us another instance of advance
fee frauds. I have fwded. it in turn to the Secret Service at:
419.fcd@usss.treas.gov.
Our only request would be that you be kind enough to forward any additional
iterations of and/or variations on the Nigerian advance fee fraud spam you
receive directly to the Secret Service. That Federal agency is handling
this matter, and it would be a great help for you to send them to the Secret
Service instead of the SEC: 419.fcd@usss.treas.gov.
Again, thanks for your e-mail.
Sincerely,
Jim Daly
U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission
Office of Investor Education and Assistance
(202) 942-7173, (202) 942-9634 (fax)
oiea@sec.gov
I can see why the retailers don't really care. If someone forges a paper gift certificate and redeems it, the store is out the money. The thieves are just printing money.
But when someone forges a stored-value card, they're stealing from other customers. The "value" has already been paid for, so the store doesn't lose anything.
Why is this a troll? The station was rooted and has been so for 3 days and counting. The article is about web defacements and sites that don't care. Puh-lease.
Why not just replace your home page with a trojan that runs the patch?
If you want to prioritize who gets patched first, you can send the patch as an email to everyone and warm them not to run it. The ones you need to worry most about will be the first patched...
They missed this milestone, the second post from AOL:
From: aluser@aol.com (aluser@aol.com)
Subject: Re: Is America Online Connected to the Internet or Not?
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Date: 1992-05-05 13:45:06 PST
> I have read many postings about America Online and the Internet in
> this newsgroup. Since some of the information has been not quite
> right I figured I should make a posting to clear up any misconseptions
> that might exist. There is an America Online gateway to Internet. It
> is now going into 'open' beta testing. To send mail to an America
> Online, Promenade or PC-Link user you need to know the user's screen
> name. The only way to get a user's screen name is to contact them by
> other means (ie there is no name server). Once you know a user's
> screen name remove any spaces, make it lower case, and append
> @aol.com. For example to send to the screen name A User you would
> address your mail to auser@aol.com.
>
> To send mail from America Online to the Internet you simply put the
> Internet address in the To: field on the regular mail form. In a
> previous post the question was posed as to whether or not there are
> 'special' gateways for Compuserve, MCI Mail etc. The answer is no,
> there are not. For some of the more popular services abbreviations
> have been created; for example to send to a Compuserve user you can
> use the address 123.4567@cis. Additional information can be found on
> America Online by using the keyword InetBeta. There is no additional
> charge for using the Internet mail gateway. Mail is limited to around
> 27k bytes in both directions. If you notice any problems with this
> gateway please send mail to inetbeta1@aol.com from the Internet or
> inetbeta from America Online.
>
>
> George Browning Programmer/Analyst gbrowning@aol.com
>
> ** BETA TEST MAIL Report bugs to INetBeta1@aol.com **
> I tell you, I just don't understand the animosity toward this amazing technology.
I understand the animosity. It's hype-backlash.
Yes, it looks cool. Yes, it should appeal to geeks. But it was so massively over-hyped. Is this really going to change everything about life as we know it, or was that a bit of an exaggeration?
You can't tell me you weren't at least a little letdown. Does it use a Sterling engine? No. Does it run on hydrogen or some alternative fuel source? No. Does "everyone want one"? Not at $3k.
Ok, very neat, "think forward, go forward". But beyond that, it's not like people are really incapable of learning to use a throttle. For the most part, when I'm driving I don't have to consciously remind myself which pedal to step on to make the car go...
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>> successfully used it to stop 2600 magazine
> As I recall, 2600 only linked
There is also the question of their definition of success. While they have, for now, stopped *2600* from linking to it, they've hardly supressed it's existance off the net.
Since when have movies cared about physics? I mean, in Speed the bus "jumps" an unfinished section of an overpass.
And when was the last time you saw a movie where the explosion is seen BEFORE it is heard?
Not to mention virtually every space fiction movie ever made with the sole exception of 2001.
As I read the first sentence, "Updates and second thoughts tonight..." I thought perhaps it WAS a followup on the engagement story.
So what you're saying is that Product Activation may penalize innocent users? I thought MicroSoft was trying to stop pirates, not cause trouble for its loyal customers...
And just which part of your sentence "His legendary stubborness is outmatched only by the fragility of his ego" is arguing against his logic? My point was that you CLAIM to only attack his dialectics, but you do not in fact do so.
You even went so far as to claim he would never admit to be proven wrong. I've looked through your old posts and I can't find where you've done so either.
Brilliant. Someone questions why people always attack Stallman with ad hominens and they don't argue his points. So Arandir replies that he always argues "against the dialectics of RMS". The rest of his message explains how RMS is stubborn and egotistical.
Well, you sure proved Aron S-T wrong!
Fact #3: Col. Hogan convinced me that the heavy water the Nazis were temporarily storing at my Stalag was in fact water from the fountain of youth. I was stupid for drinking it...
Written in the 60's, but never sent and never published. So this is new information.
Second, there has been a lot of speculation on what happened in Copenhagen in 1941. So much, in fact, that a book and play was written that speculated on the meeting.
These letters seem to cast a pretty serious shadow over the speculation that Heisenberg was secretly working against the Nazis and, for the first time, give us a clear answer to what Bohr's opinion had been.
The NY Times (evil reg, blah blah) has a lengthy article on the release of the documents.
> Do people actually rent DVD's?
Around here, you can check them out of the library.
> i am talking about the specific phrase "separation of church and state"
So by your logic, "freedom of religion" isn't in the Constitution either because that specific phrase with that exact wording doesn't appear.
"Church" is obviously a lay term for the more precise "spheres of religious activity" and "State" a term for "civil authority".
> thank you.
Your welcome.
> it's not in any official government document whatsoever.
So I assume that you don't consider rulings of the U.S. Supreme Court to be "official government documents"...
"The [First] Amendment's purpose... was to create a complete and permanent separation of the spheres of religious activity and civil authority by comprehensively forbidding every form of public aid or support for religion." U.S. Supreme Court, Reynolds v. United States (1879)
This is the reply I last received from enforcement@sec.gov:
Dear Investor:
Thank you for taking the time to forward to us another instance of advance
fee frauds. I have fwded. it in turn to the Secret Service at:
419.fcd@usss.treas.gov.
Our only request would be that you be kind enough to forward any additional
iterations of and/or variations on the Nigerian advance fee fraud spam you
receive directly to the Secret Service. That Federal agency is handling
this matter, and it would be a great help for you to send them to the Secret
Service instead of the SEC: 419.fcd@usss.treas.gov.
Again, thanks for your e-mail.
Sincerely,
Jim Daly
U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission
Office of Investor Education and Assistance
(202) 942-7173, (202) 942-9634 (fax)
oiea@sec.gov
I guess you missed the part where they returned the goods for cash...
I can see why the retailers don't really care. If someone forges a paper gift certificate and redeems it, the store is out the money. The thieves are just printing money.
But when someone forges a stored-value card, they're stealing from other customers. The "value" has already been paid for, so the store doesn't lose anything.
Why bother with the hi-tech solution when so many people are willing to do it voluntarily?
Why is this a troll? The station was rooted and has been so for 3 days and counting. The article is about web defacements and sites that don't care. Puh-lease.
PalmStation doesn't appear to care. They've had this up at least since Christmas.
Hitbox.com has been in my junkbuster blockfile for ages...
Why not just replace your home page with a trojan that runs the patch?
If you want to prioritize who gets patched first, you can send the patch as an email to everyone and warm them not to run it. The ones you need to worry most about will be the first patched...
> This eliminates Microsoft's ability to use strong-arm tactics in the ways it has been doing
Except, of course, that it only lasts 5 years. Unless they ignore it. If they ignore it, they will have to ignore it for 7 years.
They missed this milestone, the second post from AOL:
From: aluser@aol.com (aluser@aol.com)
Subject: Re: Is America Online Connected to the Internet or Not?
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Date: 1992-05-05 13:45:06 PST
> I have read many postings about America Online and the Internet in
> this newsgroup. Since some of the information has been not quite
> right I figured I should make a posting to clear up any misconseptions
> that might exist. There is an America Online gateway to Internet. It
> is now going into 'open' beta testing. To send mail to an America
> Online, Promenade or PC-Link user you need to know the user's screen
> name. The only way to get a user's screen name is to contact them by
> other means (ie there is no name server). Once you know a user's
> screen name remove any spaces, make it lower case, and append
> @aol.com. For example to send to the screen name A User you would
> address your mail to auser@aol.com.
>
> To send mail from America Online to the Internet you simply put the
> Internet address in the To: field on the regular mail form. In a
> previous post the question was posed as to whether or not there are
> 'special' gateways for Compuserve, MCI Mail etc. The answer is no,
> there are not. For some of the more popular services abbreviations
> have been created; for example to send to a Compuserve user you can
> use the address 123.4567@cis. Additional information can be found on
> America Online by using the keyword InetBeta. There is no additional
> charge for using the Internet mail gateway. Mail is limited to around
> 27k bytes in both directions. If you notice any problems with this
> gateway please send mail to inetbeta1@aol.com from the Internet or
> inetbeta from America Online.
>
>
> George Browning Programmer/Analyst gbrowning@aol.com
>
> ** BETA TEST MAIL Report bugs to INetBeta1@aol.com **
me too
The old story was about VA proposing the name change. They still needed shareholder approval, which they only recently got.
The latest Cygwin includes openSSH 3.0.1 and supports Protocol 2 (you can even run sshd on a Windows box and ssh into it).
> Nevermind all the childern with cp ...
Yes, I'm sure people who have little control over their muscles will want a machine that responds to subtle muscle movement.
> I tell you, I just don't understand the animosity toward this amazing technology.
I understand the animosity. It's hype-backlash.
Yes, it looks cool. Yes, it should appeal to geeks. But it was so massively over-hyped. Is this really going to change everything about life as we know it, or was that a bit of an exaggeration?
You can't tell me you weren't at least a little letdown. Does it use a Sterling engine? No. Does it run on hydrogen or some alternative fuel source? No. Does "everyone want one"? Not at $3k.
Ok, very neat, "think forward, go forward". But beyond that, it's not like people are really incapable of learning to use a throttle. For the most part, when I'm driving I don't have to consciously remind myself which pedal to step on to make the car go...